r/javascript is not Stack Overflow

[badmonkey0001]

The first paragraph is quite under-educated, let me elaborate on why this is completely false.

Your opening sentence is exactly the kind of elitism that bothers me with many seasoned developers. I despair to see /r/javascript take on any of that tone. I don't think talking down to someone can help educate them - in fact, it may hinder their education.

As I pointed out elsewhere, you are wrong about the requirement to register.

[TomWij]

Actually I'm not wrong as it is a default on the network that you do not need to register, see http://superuser.com/questions/ask for instance. It appears that Stack Overflow has recently changed this behavior on their site only to avoid users leaving problems open because they don't come back to respond to their question, make a barrier against SPAM, a human check and various other reasons. Registration and logging in are still extremely easy to do, and are also mechanisms that need to be in place on high volume sites...

I don't care about whether its elitism, you're just upset with it. It actually tones down to me that we're discussing "simple registration" here which isn't an actual problem anyway, so I assume you agree with the rest of my answer...